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Painting on the Canvas
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Painting on the Canvas
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Selecting a Brush
About Canvas Mode
When you first open Paint, you are in
Canvas mode. In Canvas mode, you can use brushes to modify your
images. Brushes apply colour, filters, and Special Effects media
to the image on the canvas. The brush cursor appears as a green
cross surrounded by a circle when placed over the canvas. Canvas
mode features are not available from multiple menus, such Canvas,
Geometry, Fill, and Roll.
You can also paint on the canvas using geometric
shapes to define the path of the brush.
To ease the painting of canvas edges, you can
roll the canvas in the image window.
To
paint on the canvas:
- Click
Paint.
The Paint menu appears.
- Click
Canvas.
If the scratch pad is covering this button,
swipe down to hide the scratch pad.
- From
the Paint Mode controls, click Paint.
- Set
a colour in the Current Colour pot. See
Selecting Colours.
- Select
a brush from the Brushes window. See
Selecting a Brush.
- Set
the brush attributes and modes in the Brush Attributes fields. See
Brush Attributes and
Brush Attribute Modes.
- Set
the brush opacity in the Opacity field. Set the opacity to 100%
to apply a fully opaque colour.
- Stroke
the brush over the canvas. To paint straight horizontal and vertical
lines, press Shift and drag
the brush up and down or left and right.
- Click
Undo (or press Ctrl+Z) to erase the
strokes applied to the canvas since the last time you zoomed, panned, or
changed a brush attribute.